Jun30
Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.
By Shannon McDonald
The city’s larger media outlets could not agree this weekend when a speeding driver injured two police officers early Sunday morning.
The accident happened around 1 a.m. on the 4200-block of Aramingo Avenue. That’s about all the reporters can agree on. continue reading »
Jun3
By Christopher Wink
Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.
Northeast Philadelphia is not within walking distance of K&A. continue reading »
Jun1
Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.
Courtesy of FOX29
By Shannon McDonald
The terrible thing about this story is, you can even tell from the picture FOX provides that they got mixed up. The photo is clear: the man police are looking robbed a bank in Mayfair – right in front of Mayfair mall, to be exact – not in Frankford, as FOX29 reported last week.
Someone should put out a memo to city’s media outlets and let them know that Frankford Avenue doesn’t necessarily mean Frankford the neighborhood.
May27
Image courtesy of FOX29
By Shannon McDonald
An off-duty police officer helped stopped an armed robbery yesterday on Bustleton Avenue.
Lt. Andrew Napoli was at the Radbill Animal Hospital on Bustleton Avenue between Somerton Avenue and Byberry Road with his family when a suspicious-looking man walked into the clinic and went directly to the treatment area.
The man proceded to demand money from the veterinarian and his technician. The technician pulled a gun on the theif, but he didn’t back down. Napoli, a 20-year veteran of the Marine Unit, stepped in when he heard the technician’s cries for help. He wrestled the gunman, 46-year-old David Minarczyk, to the waiting room floor until more help arrived.
Police say Minarczyk was wanted for three CVS robberies, and was trying to support a drug habit.
May26
Image courtesy of FOX29
By Shannon McDonald
A trolley wire broke loose in Frankford Sunday night during the thunder storm, injuring the woman it fell on. The wire, which was not live with electricity, fell near Oxford Avenue and Foulkrod Street around 9 p.m., knocking down the woman.
The woman was treated at Temple University Hospital, though her injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Apr16
By Shannon McDonald
UPDATE: The man who was shot was 47, FOX reports, not 30. Police say they expect the man, who walked to the emergency room, to recover. They are also investigating whether the man was involved with a group of people who were smoking crack cocain when the bullets came through the first-floor window of the home. The man is still in Frankford-Torresdale Hospital.
Police say a man was in his home on the 1600-block of Dyre Street in Frankford when a bullet came through his screen window at 5:30 this morning.
The 30-year-old man was struck twice in the head, and sustained severe brain damage.
CBS3 states the man remains in Frankford-Torresdale Hospital, though Frankford Hospital would make more sense. No arrests have been made.
Mar10
By Shannon McDonald
Anyone who plans on using an ATM in the area should pay close attention to their surroundings.
Two suspects have been spotted placing devices in the credit card slots of ATMs, which cause people’s cards to get stuck. In two cases, elderly women have inserted their cards into a rigged machine, and left when they believed the cards were stuck due to a machine error. The thieves then take the cards.
In one instance, one of the suspects persuaded a woman into entering her PIN again, subsequently stealing the number and her card when she became frustrated and left.
Police are still looking for the suspects, who drive a silver pickup, and believe there have been more victims. Both thefts took place on the 7300-block of Frankford Ave. near Cottman Avenue, but it is uncertain whether other machines have been used.
FOX29 has surveillance footage of one of the thefts.
Feb27
Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.
By Shannon McDonald
In their ongoing coverage of the elderly Frankford man whose neighbor beat him to death, FOX29 and NBC10 screwed up our neighborhoods.
The stations qualified the killing as Oxford Cirlcle, but, as the Frankford Gazette also points out, the murder took place at Saul and Anchor streets. That’s to the east of The Boulevard, and is definitely not in Oxford Circle.
